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| The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 |
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D. The most comprehensive reorganization of the United States Congress in history to that date. It organized.
1. streamlining Congress's cumbersome committee system by reducing the number of standing committees and carefully defining their jurisdictions; upgrading staff support for legislators;
2. strengthening congressional oversight of executive agencies;
3. Established an elaborate procedure to put congressional spending and taxation policies on a more rational basis.
4. Required lobbyists to register with Congress and to file periodic reports of their activities. |
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| The "Bureaucratic Mentality" |
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D. The theory that the government will do what they promised to do because they were elected to do it
S. This is seen as irrational to Political cynics, because government is ran by people that have their own needs. Also, defining what is best for the country is rather difficult. |
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D. The shared traits of a group of people or culture--The things they find important.
S. Effect governing and passing of laws |
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Members/% of active members
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| The Iron Law of Oligarchy |
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A. It states that all forms of organization, regardless of how democratic they may be at the start, will eventually and inevitably develop into oligarchies--because all those who govern will in the end govern out of self interest.
Leaders become different from the masses and leaders start to see things differently because they are around other leaders. Staying in a leadership position becomes the goal of leadership.
S. This is one argument elites make for the importance of administrators and guarders of the public. |
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Three actor groups involved in citizen participation.
1. the first actor group--administrators
2. the second actor group--clients or constituents--experience direct impacts
3. the third actor group--Everyone else--experience indirect impacts |
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The idea that the government does not need to regulate because the market can
It assumes people are rational
Excludes the influence of advertising
In the end a company can do a lot of different things than fix the violation without government help |
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| A favorable Political Climate |
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Interest groups help the create this through supporting the side that supports your interest---or support both sides to gain a favorable political climate.
Often supporting both candidates in a race--not equally but both to some extent |
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environmental interest groups--
Diverging interests with so many different interest groups |
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| Congress oversees the bureacracy as the Reorganization Act of 1946 intended--With committees and staffs to make sure that the bureaucracy is doing as the congress approved |
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Other items non-directly related to the interest group. Like the offered credit card, travel plans, ect that are affiliated with the interest group.
S. Creates a stronger tie between member and group |
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| D. Government Regulations that help Citizens be informed--Ingrediate labels, safety recalls, |
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The importance of things are defined by its profit or value in money instead of looking at the needs of the community
If not money What decides what is important or success? |
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| Money donated to Political parties instead of the candidate and has no limits |
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| The issue of Identifying issues and measuring them accurately |
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| D. What is in support of the public as a whole--roads, fire department, national parks |
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Code of Ethics Applies to all Government workers
The point of a code of ethics:
To provide guidance to help managers do the right thing
Generally applied most in the area of grey between lawful and right |
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| The Business is Superior Myth |
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| D. The idea that business does things better than government---Godsell argued that the private sector is not more efficient than government. |
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"Friend of the court"
The infiltration of Interest groups into the judicial process to control policy creation or implementation, usually to clog the system |
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| The control congress has over money and expenditures--Gives congress power over the president |
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When those regulating become “captured” by those they are to regulate
Where the government restricts entry into an activity--like liquor store in KS, need liscence |
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| The people who own the forms of production and have employees |
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| Merit Employment and Affirmative Action |
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| D. The use of job performance to decide advancement or employment vs. Affirmative action |
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| An abstract idea that gives and underlying process that can be applied to many areas |
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| the ability of Congress to oversee the decisions made by the president |
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| American Society for Public Administration |
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| These are opinions or actions we take because of the life experiences we have had, often the experiences forced on us by other people |
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| D. any distinguishing practice that is indicative of one's social or regional origin. It usually refers to features of language, and particularly to a word whose pronunciation identifies its speaker as being a member or not a member of a particular group. |
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A Sense of community
Also a reason that is given that all people should obey laws even if they disagree with the law |
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| Situational Ethics and Moral Relativism |
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Situationa Ethics- Ethics depend on Situation
Moral Relativism- Morals depend on culture |
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Government
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Interest Groups
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| The center is What we think is right in our country and best in our country. Parenti argued that Dogma of the center was not for the masses but the elite. |
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| Effective Citizen Participation |
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Extent to which administrative decisions are influenced by nonadministrative
Elitist and Populist argue the importance of citizen involvement, elitist are against citizen involvement because they are not professionals. |
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| posts where money comes from for candidates in elections--to follow the money |
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Trustee---
For the status Quo---Power is fairly given
Participatory Government--We as the citizen
Public Order
Self Interest/Individualism |
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Delegate from the people---
Want Power Redistribution
Populism/Popular control of government--The masses control government
Social Justice
Collectivism--Our interdependence with eachother |
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| Obeying laws even those that we do not agree with it--Defer to those in power |
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Cynical of government---
Government is not altruistic
They believe in that the masses are apathetic |
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Martin Luther King--Civil Disobedience--the government needs some disruption about some policies
Just laws/unjust laws and situational ethics--
You must define what is a just or unjust law--critics say you are really only using situational ethics
Critical of laws for some reason or another often human rights issues |
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